This, economists will tell you, leads to a "tragedy of the commons, " where individual owners, acting in their own self interests, destroy the resource.

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If the bomblets fail to find something suitable to destroy, they automatically self-destruct.

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Whim worshipping only leads to self destruction, and any one is free to destroy themselves.

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He has endeavored, in every way that he could to destroy her confidence in her own powers, to lessen her self-respect, and to make her willing to lead a dependent and abject life.

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The companies, in survival mode and out of pure self-interest, jump at the chance, as even a weak government case can destroy them.

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